[SunHELP] Root Password expired

Peter Stokes peter at ashlyn.co.uk
Thu Mar 7 07:22:08 CST 2002


Hi Eric

Makes for pretty good security though, perhaps I should suggest it to those
customers who habitually login as root instead of themselves and then wonder
why the system screwed up with the accompanying 'I did not change ANYTHING'.

Peter

-----Original Message-----
From: sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org [mailto:sunhelp-admin at sunhelp.org]On
Behalf Of Eric Webb
Sent: 07 March 2002 13:10
To: sunhelp at sunhelp.org
Subject: Re: [SunHELP] Root Password expired


On Thursday 07 March 2002 05:17 am, you wrote:
> Hi ,
>
>      When i try to do a su and login to root i am not able to do so.
> When i tried rsh from an other server who had access to this server i got
> the error root passwd expired.


Wow, do people really put expirations on root?  Sounds like a train wreck
waiting to happen....


-E.
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